Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-08-26
NEW ENGLAND NEWS

The Thompson safe in the postofIlce in c.
III. Smiths store in Union City, Ct, was
blown open by professional burglars and
nearly 500 in money and stamps were stolen.
The thieves broke into a blacksmith's shop,
and stole chisels and drills TO use in the job.
One charge Of giant powder only was used,
though three holes were bored.
Gen. p. A. Collins has accepted an invita-
ton to deliver an address on Ireland at the
Boston Theatre Aug. d
Mrs. Alice Brookings a widow, employed
at Z. B. Travis shoe factory, Natick, got
upon bench to open a window, when her
hair caught in the shafting overhead, and be-
fore the speed could be shut down, she was
completely scalped
Burglars blew open the large vault in F.
NJ. Whiting & Co S factory at North Attic
boro. The Waterman was chloroformed and
gagged, and received a dangerous wound on
the head. The windows in the building vera
badly shattered
A present to the Cape Ann Yacht Club, by
! Hermann Tappan of New York, of gold
and silver cup valued at $500 has been made
Parson Downs late church in Bowdoin
square, opened under new auspices as the
baptist Tabernacle"
tremendous rain, with a gale Of wind,
visited all the neighborhood north of Middle
town, ct. Crops are badly damaged, corn
fiat as If 1t had been rolled down. a number
OF trees uprooted and some barns blown
down.
The Bridgeport Ct, postmaster has an
nounced the flight of the money order clerk,
Axel Nylen, and the ENLIGHTENMENT of $705
he was Republican and was retained by
Postmaster Meeker because of his ability to
speak several languages, he being a Swede
and well educated. He resigned July J. and
disappeared from town before the embezzle-
ment was discovered. Detectives of the post
office department have maintained close
watch on outgoing steamers, as it was be-
| lieved that he would return to Sweden, but
no trace has been discovered
The death Of Alvan Clark, the famous tele-
scope-maker of Cambridge, Mass, is re
| ported.
Manager Stetson of the Globe Theatre,
Boston, is to build new theatre in New
! York
A narrow escape from serious catastro
phe occurred in Onset Bay, Mass. While the
yacht Petrel owned by William Winship of
Boston, and containing Matthias Croker and
two boys, was on her way to Shell Point she
suddenly went over. Assistance was soon at
hand and the party brought to land. The
cause of the accident was the slowness of one
of the boys in letting go the sheet. A gale
was blowing at the time.
A bitter war is raging between the shore
steamboat companies running out of Provi-
| dence, r. ]. A recent decision, suspending
the captain of the Philadelphia for 60 days
for colliding with the Watcher, has been
reversed, the Watchers captain getting
the 60 days and the other man reinstated.
| The anticipated strike at Martin & Frenchs
shoe factory at Fall River did not take place
because the two Objectionable employees
whom the Knights of Labor wanted dis
| obarpp1 cntfln | mn and did ,lOt Ia Hyorl-
Two boys were arrested for setting fire to
Young'S spar yard in East Boston They
| confessed
Thomas Swift of New Bedford has been
pardoned from the house of correction by
Gov. Ames
Over 5000 people attended the festival
concert at Point Of Pines on Sunday last
The railroad commissioners have decided
that the Nantasket Beach railroad must be
operated.
An autopsy on the remains OF Emma Stock
house, who committed Suicide at Hotel Merrill,
Boston, indicates death by morphine The
girls moral character was found to be above
reproach.
Two boys, who deserted from the training
ship, New Hampshire, at Newport, and who
stole a catboat to facilitate their escape, were
captured and returned to the ship. They
| were uiScudISCu. 1uey dalnaSeu Une cat
boat to the extent of $780,
Hyde Park NIass.) offers n rev. I'd of $500
for the arrest and conviction of the parties
who set fire to the Greenwood schoolhouse on
Aug. H.
A special says that great excitement pre-
walls at Pennington, Me-, over the arrest of
Abner Searles of Pangeley, for attempting
to poison the family of one Loclllin with
paris green. The prisoner admits his guilt,
and says that he was hired by one Durham
to put poison into the food to be eaten by the
family, and that he was given 50 for doing
it. So much poison was used, however, that
it was discovered before any one had eaten
the food.
Mr.. Louis De Beck, sutler at tie Boston
Navy Yard for five years, has come into
possession of over $l,000,000 through the
death of an aunt in Belgium
The Edwards Manufacturing company of
Augusta, Me-, has closed all except its weav
ing department, on account of over prodIc-
ton of yarn.
Remedy S. S;delinger, known in Boston as
barber, labor agitator and editor, has beer
arrested for desertion from the regular
army.